Anna-Louise Coaching

22/11/2025

Training fasted?

Many people talk about the benefits of ‘training fasted’ these days.

However, I am a nutritionist and I am also someone who trains for performance and has a high energy output and I NEVER go into any movement, even just a weekend walk, fasted. That is, despite often training at 5am.

Especially being female, it’s really important for my body and its numerous clever processes, to feel safe to continue to function fully and healthily.

So you can bet, even if it’s only a banana or a handful of dates, I’m going into my movement fuelled!
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20/11/2025

Sorry, whaaaaaat?!

I’m incredibly proud to share that POC Cycling are supporting my 900-mile MOVE Against Cancer challenge — and have so kindly provided me with an amazing set of kit to train and ride in.If you know POC, you’ll know they’re a cycling brand but also leaders in innovation for safety and performa...

20/11/2025

Something we worked on in one of my movement sessions last week, when I visited Leicester hospital to chat about the benefits of physical activity when living with, or beyond cancer, was a body scan. It’s relevant whether or not cancer is, or has been, a part of your life.

Eyes open or closed, it doesn’t matter too much, but notice where your tension sits, where there might be discomfort going unnoticed or stiffness perhaps.

Take a slow, deep breath and imagine it going right into that spot and ask yourself, answering honestly, ‘what does my body need just now?’

Is it high intensity? Is it gentle movement? Is it something energising? Or is it a stretch? A walk? Or a total rest?

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15/11/2025

Let’s talk about MENOPAUSE and bone health for a moment – something you definitely want to think about when looking after your body to ease some of those menopausal aches and pains.
Bone breakdown accelerates as we move through the menopause due to oestrogen levels dropping which can result in osteoporosis among other symptoms.
We’ve spoken many times here about the menopause not being something that we dread and we can in fact manage many of the downsides that tend to come with it.
So, what can we do to help combat that bone breakdown?
🏋🏻‍♀️ Resistance exercise – body weight or heavy lifting, it doesn’t matter but I will go to my grave shouting about the benefits of resistance exercise for us all, especially women at this stage of our lives.
🐟 Protein – try for a serving at least at each meal
🌞 Vitamin D – most of us in the UK, especially at this time of year, are deficient. A simple over the counter supplement can help with that.
🥛 Calcium – 3 healthy servings of calcium each day is the aim here.

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14/11/2025

I’ve written a blog sharing more about how me and Dan are working together, what we’re focusing on early in training, and why having a great coach matters so much.

Update time… 🎉As you may know by now, I’m gearing up for my biggest challenge yet — 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines — all to celebrate MOVE Against Cancer’s 10th anniversary.It’s a long old journey from Edinburgh to London, of course not a direct route, connecting major teenage ...

13/11/2025

Can we just take a moment to remember that weight is NOT the only measure of good health – be it ‘overweight’ or ‘underweight’?

Can we just allow others to move their bodies without making assumptions or comments?

You really have no idea what’s going on with anyone else, what unseen things they’re managing or have managed to overcome and even if that is insignificant with reference to the way that their body looks, you still have no place dishing out unwanted opinions.

The world needs more love, for every BODY. ✌🏼🌻🖤

12/11/2025

I’ve shared a bit more here about my new coaching setup, early training and what’s coming next for the MOVE challenge.

I’ve written a blog sharing more about how me and Dan are working together, what we’re focusing on early in training, and why having a great coach matters so much. ✌🏼🌻🖤

Update time… 🎉As you may know by now, I’m gearing up for my biggest challenge yet — 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines — all to celebrate MOVE Against Cancer’s 10th anniversary.It’s a long old journey from Edinburgh to London, of course not a direct route, connecting major teenage ...

11/11/2025

The good days don’t really matter, the days when we are obstacle free for our health and wellbeing, they’re few and far between, what matters the most is how we respond when life puts things in the way. That’s almost every day, the majority of the time, what forms the largest part of our health and wellbeing ultimately.

So, what happens when work forces a late night so you don’t feel like getting up in the morning? What happens when you leave your nutritious prepared lunch in the fridge? What happens when it’s raining and you have an outdoor training session planned?

We can all do it when things are exactly as we want them to be. What about when things aren’t optimal?

It’s hard to begin with but keep working on those habits, on those routines, it then just becomes something that you do without excuse. ✌🏼🌻🖤

10/11/2025

Update time… 🎉

As I take on my biggest challenge yet, 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines for MOVE Against Cancer, I needed someone in my corner to help guide me through the chaos and keep me on the straight and narrow!

So, I’m beyond excited to be working with who’ll be coaching me through this journey 🙌

Dan brings SO much knowledge and kindness and I’m so happy to be working together — he’s already dealing with me being annoying and exercising great patience when I’m a technology dinosaur and can’t get the training apps to work - I have promised that I won’t be this high maintenance all along!

This partnership feels really cool for me — it’s collaboration, learning, and hopefully being part of something bigger than a single event moving forward. I’m so grateful for the generosity, time, and energy Dan is giving to help make this challenge possible.

It goes without saying that I am very grateful for those that have helped me build some endurance foundations up to now, as always.

I can’t wait to share more about what we’re working on, the training behind the scenes, and how Dan is helping me prepare for 900 miles of movement for an incredible cause.

It takes a team 💪

08/11/2025

Appear somehow to have developed some kind of mental block with swimming – not ideal as someone who loves triathlon and has a big old challenge next year, involving open water swimming.

Open water, pool, nothing has happened just my brain has decided that a swimming session means absolute DREAD.

Quite unsure if it’s the cold (yep, I’m even cold in a heated pool indoors and have quite a legitimate fear of being cold), the drama and violence that comes from fellow swimmers, being slow as hell and feeling bad about myself because of that – who knows.

BUT the wild thing is, I sit in the car with dread beforehand and it’s almost always fine and actually enjoyable!

So, if anyone has any ideas about how the brain can get over this I’m all out!!

AND this is your sign to go get whatever is troubling you – it’s barely ever as bad as you think.
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06/11/2025

Do you know what baffles me?

When people pay to go and see a physio or sports therapist and don’t do the prescribed exercises like having someone’s eyes on the injury or telling someone about it is magic?

Do the work gang and come back stronger! ✌🏼🌻🖤